Era: Retired from the army at the beginning and returned home - Chapter 316 Another Chinese New Year

Chapter 315 Another Chinese New Year

This year’s New Year’s Eve is even more lively than previous years.

Or maybe it’s just like this in Ngee Ann City. There’s no famine this year, and many places can have a comfortable New Year. But it only alleviated the drought of previous years, and the rationing of some cities recovered a little, but it has not yet recovered to what it was before the three-year drought.

But farmers are like this. If they have trouble eating during the New Year, even if they can eat a bowl of noodles, it would be better to make a dumpling stuffed with meat.

But it was different here in Ngee Ann City, or to be more precise, it was different here in Ngee Ann Industrial Zone. There was no shortage of food or clothing, only money. With money and various welfare notes issued to employees by the industrial zone, I can go shopping in department stores every month just like during the Chinese New Year. But there are too many good things. No matter how good the benefits are in industrial zones, it is impossible to give them extra money. It is no different from a disguised wage increase and is illegal.

Those who buy New Year goods during the Chinese New Year are not only employees in the industrial zone who like to visit department stores, but also people who have channels to obtain various welfare tickets in the industrial zone. There is even an additional ticket this year, a vegetable ticket.

That’s right, it’s a vegetable ticket. Because greenhouse cultivation was carried out in the land cultivation area opposite the industrial zone, it was successful the first time. And using organic fertilizer, they are growing well.

The excrement in the entire industrial area and living area was contracted by the staff in the planting area, and some excrement pickers were specially recruited.

Farmers’ markets in industrial areas and residential areas sell green vegetables, cucumbers, peppers and other vegetables during the cold season. Although there are greenhouses, some vegetables that are not cold-tolerant are still not grown. But it’s better than the past when only Chinese cabbage was available in the New Year market, and it’s better here in the south. In the north, you have to stock up on Chinese cabbage in advance and store it in the cellar. Otherwise, you may not even be able to buy Chinese New Year cabbage.

Some ordinary employees were reluctant to use the vegetable tickets they received when they heard that someone was exchanging them for other tickets. During the Chinese New Year, you can at least buy cabbage and radishes that don’t require tickets. I feel like you can exchange your vegetable tickets for food stamps and other items. As for these vegetables, if you tolerate it for a month or two, they will be available again in the spring of next year. Many people were reluctant to use them and exchanged them for other tickets.

Therefore, this year, the homes of some leading cadres in Ngee Ann and provinces and districts actually bought a lot of various types of vegetables as the Chinese New Year was approaching. Even if you give a gift to a leader, if it is expensive, it will be difficult for others to accept it, and if it is a poor gift, you will lose face. This is a really good way to send fresh vegetables during the Chinese New Year.

Luo Cheng brings Gao Ru back. This year Gao Ru plans to go home for the New Year. Because there were so many things, Luo Cheng even arranged for a driver to take her back to the county town. We made an appointment to come back here on the fifteenth day of the new year and go to Xiangjiang together.

A breakup is better than a wedding. Luo Cheng is young and vigorous, and he has already thought about how to play with Sissy on the road. Unfortunately, as the Chinese New Year approaches, the art troupe becomes busier. I want to express condolences and care for the workers. Even after the workers took the New Year’s holiday, there were still many people in the army, and they had to go to the army to express condolences.

So when Luo Cheng came back, Sissi was still performing in the county below. Just like the projectionists in the industrial areas, during the Chinese New Year, they have to go to the countryside to show movies like the film projectionists from the Cultural Affairs Bureau. Although projectionists receive wages from industrial areas, they must follow the coordination of the local cultural bureau.

This is just like the security department of an industrial zone. They receive wages from the industrial zone. In fact, the system is the public security department. The hospital is under the management of the Health Bureau, even the staff clinic. For example, when the medical room was first established in an automobile factory, it was fully equipped with two or three staff members. But if the automobile factory never develops in scale, how can the staff in the medical office be promoted? That is, through transfer from the Health Bureau, to a hospital or other larger enterprise.

In this era, workers are working for the country, not with you personally. Even Luo Cheng himself, if he feels that the development of the automobile industrial zone has reached a bottleneck and wants to go further, he can be transferred to other places according to the system of each department. of.

Now the Automobile Industrial Zone Central Hospital has been established in the industrial zone, and the ambulance center has also moved there. Li Xiaotong, who was responsible for ambulance dispatching and rescue work here before, now also moved to the industrial zone with the ambulance center. I went to work over there in the district.

However, the employee outpatient hospital of the old automobile factory (now the transfer station) is still retained to facilitate employees living in the city to see minor illnesses. As for the central hospital in the industrial zone, it is a large hospital. Because the welfare benefits are good and the hospital is supported by the industrial zone, it can afford medical equipment and medical research subjects. It also provides funds to support skilled doctors. Go research and learn.

Even the Central Hospital is a hospital that integrates traditional Chinese and Western medicine. It is divided into Chinese and Western departments, and you can treat both Chinese and Western medicine.

This has led to many good doctors joining, with generous benefits and bonuses, and a good hospital environment. The rooms and wards where patients are treated are all air-conditioned. With the most advanced equipment available, even doctors from other provinces want to work here. Therefore, not long after the establishment of the Central Hospital, it became a famous hospital in the city. Many people come here to try out treatments that are not good in other places.

Anyway, this is the industrial zone. Even if Luo Cheng doesn’t interfere, it will gradually develop better. Of course Luo Cheng is already very good, otherwise there is no use in making more money here in the industrial zone. The tens of thousands of people working in the steel rolling mill in Sijiu City will not be able to eat meat for several months even in difficult times. How can such a big factory make money? The starting salary is too low to afford meat.

At least Luo Cheng is really trying his best to support the industrial zone in terms of materials in Xiangjiang, but many will be intercepted, and the industrial zone can only get a rough percentage.

This year’s Chinese New Year is as usual, with wages and benefits being paid in advance before the end of the year. There are too many people in the industrial area. When it comes to fattening, there are actually not as many as before. One person only has half a catty, and those with high positions only have about one catty. However, there were a lot of seafood such as fish and kelp instead, and each person was given a box of pastries.

During the Chinese New Year, more bills and internal purchase coupons were issued than usual. Even before the holiday, a commendation meeting was held. This was proposed by the union director Zhou Papi to reward some active workers. The highest reward is directly a bicycle.

Luo Cheng was the one to preside over the commendation meeting. There was a manuscript written by someone else, so he just read from it.

In addition, Luo Cheng also went to the provinces and districts to meet with the leaders two years ago. Last time he left here for Xiangjiang. The proposed road construction project led by industrial zones is actually led by this province and district, not by provincial leaders. How can he contact other provinces?

Road construction has already begun. The road construction budget is very high, but the road cannot be built at once. It is originally paid in installments. In this way, the pressure on each province is not great, and for the sake of efficiency, the engineering teams of several provinces discuss the nodes and start repairs at the same time. And this matter was reported in the newspapers. Originally, the construction of such a road should be funded by the national finance, not the provincial finance.

Anyway, even if Luo Cheng is not here, some of his plans have been approved and implemented, which feels pretty good.

It was the New Year’s holiday, and Sissi came back from below the day before New Year’s Eve. However, some people from their art troupe are going to perform in the army for a day on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year. It is impossible to go to the army on New Year’s Eve. Even if the people in the army do not go back to celebrate the New Year, they cannot go to express condolences on the New Year’s Day. Others really will not celebrate the New Year.

The troops still make dumplings and do hygiene on New Year’s Eve, so there is no need to rush to perform on this day to express condolences.

A new house was built in his hometown this year, and Luo Bing had already allocated a side room, which was built for Luo Cheng. Even if the principal wife would still be given to Luo Cheng in the future, Luo Bing couldn’t say anything. After all, Luo Cheng’s eldest son is responsible for providing for him in his old age.

The interior of the newly built house is relatively simple, with just simple furniture, beds, tables and stools. There are no daily necessities. Luo Cheng and the others originally came back to stay for a few days during the Chinese New Year, so they just brought quilts and daily necessities.

What Luo Cheng didn’t expect was that the day after he returned to town, the leaders of the local commune came to pay early New Year greetings. There is no other way. Luo Cheng is no longer a factory director, but a district director. If he hadn’t been suppressed in rank, he would have been a big leader at the municipal level, but even if he was suppressed because of his youth, his rank would have made him a top leader in the county. Therefore, in the town, it is normal for the town leaders to take the initiative to visit you in the early stage.

In his hometown, this year was a lively one. The leaders of the commune said that Luo Cheng had made outstanding contributions to his hometown, allowing the people in the town to live a better life than other towns. We even brought chicken and meat specially. In addition to the many ingredients Luo Cheng brought back, their family can eat meat every day during the Chinese New Year this year.

In the end, Luo Cheng felt that something was missing. The emphasis during the New Year was on reunions and interactions with relatives. But among the relatives in the town, centered on the Luo Cheng family, all kinds of flattery and polite words were too obvious. Instead, they lacked the natural feeling of getting along with relatives that they had in the past.

There was no arrangement by Luo Cheng. In fact, this year because the cooperative itself was about to expand, his father Luo Wen arranged for several people with the surname Luo from his family to join the cooperative. Of course, other people from the town were also recruited, and they were recruited in the name of the town, so they did not enjoy the same treatment as employees in the industrial zone, but it was still a paid job, which was better than digging food in the fields.

When Luo Cheng came back this time, he found that his father had actually changed a lot. He had also put on a Chinese tunic suit, and the cigarettes he smoked were not rolled with tobacco. But I didn’t buy expensive cigarettes, and I’m not as skinny as before. Especially when it comes to speaking, he seems to be less straightforward than before. Luo Cheng doesn’t know whether this is good or bad.

When Luo Cheng first became the factory director, his relatives only thought that Luo Cheng was unworthy and did not think about their own interests. But last year, Luo Cheng arranged for so many relatives to participate in the work. Although they are not comparable to regular workers in the city, they can be regarded as superior to others in the countryside.

When everyone understood that the Luo Cheng family could bring them benefits, even the people who were very close to them changed. Even Luo Cheng’s uncles and aunts used to be kind to Luo Cheng’s family, and even listened to Luo Wen’s opinions on everything. But that’s because Luo Wen is the eldest son in the family, so even if something happens in the family, Luo Wen will be recruited first.

But now it’s not just the boss’ problem, there’s a hint of fawning in it. In the past, we used to talk about all kinds of interesting things in the town during the New Year, such as finding a big snake, whose woman was unfortunately widowed, this year’s harvest, etc. But now, they are all talking about work. Those who are employed talk about their work content, and those who are not working are giving hints in a roundabout way.

Even the people from Qin Ru’s family, because Luo Bing was brought to work in the industrial area by his brother-in-law, Luo Bing, the captain of the transportation team, was flattered by the people from Qin Ru’s family.

On the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, because Sissi had to perform in the army to show condolences, it was actually just one day. On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, she rested again. But Luo Cheng still accompanied Qian Qian back to the city. Luo Cheng told his family that he would just come back to celebrate the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the Lantern Festival. All the New Year greetings that were due before the third day of the Lunar New Year have been completed, and the industrial zone will start construction on the eighth day of the Lunar New Year. He stayed at home for a few more days just to listen to all kinds of flattery, so he did not come back from the fifth to the seventh day of the Lunar New Year.

After the Lantern Festival, when Luo Cheng goes to Xiangjiang, he will take a short detour and go to SH City to pay New Year’s greetings to Sissi’s family. Sissi will also go back to her parents’ home. What makes Sissi a little dissatisfied is that even though she has been married for almost a year, there is still no movement in her stomach. She wanted to go to the hospital for a check-up, but she was afraid. If she couldn’t get pregnant due to physical reasons, it would be difficult for Sissi to accept it, no matter which one of them had the problem.

So Sissi set a new goal for herself, three years, this is the first year, and there are still two years left. If she can’t get pregnant, she will go to the hospital for a check-up.

Zheng Xue, the cook of the Luo family, saw Luo Cheng and Qian Qian going to the city on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year and followed them back to the city. After all, she was not from the Luo family, not even a relative. Luo Cheng was not in her hometown, so she was too embarrassed to stay in the town to celebrate the New Year.

The happiest person celebrating the New Year today is Gao Ru. The job in the industrial zone was given to her younger brother. Although his younger brother took over her job, the salary was reduced. But Gao Ru’s parents couldn’t get rid of the patriarchal mentality of this era, and they were very good to their daughter, otherwise they wouldn’t have sent her to college. But she still felt that it was right for her to do this. Even if she earned less money, having a good job for her brother was better than anything else.

She gave up her job to her younger brother, and she actually didn’t tell Gao Ru and Luo Cheng about going to Xiangjiang before. After all, going to Xiangjiang is no different from going abroad. When she gave the job to her brother, she just said that her ‘teacher’ had arrangements for her.

After returning from Xiangjiang this time, Gao Ru wanted to share some things with someone, otherwise she would be upset. She told her that she actually went to Xiangjiang, but she didn’t say that she went with Luo Cheng. She didn’t say that she was a cousin in Xiangjiang, she just talked about working there. At home, she also showed off the English she had learned. Although her family couldn’t understand it, she said it in a “Wow, quack, quack,” way. , can indeed shock many people.

Of course, she also mentioned her salary in Xiangjiang, which was 800 yuan a month, and did not mention the exchange rate. Because we don’t follow the national exchange rate and exchange it at a private place, it actually costs more than 800 yuan.

There were no tickets for any goods in Xiangjiang, so she brought back a lot of things. They are all in short supply in the country, and many of the pastries have never been eaten by anyone. I left some money for my family and brought some small denominations of Hong Kong dollars as souvenirs to my family. This is money used by people in Xiangjiang and cannot be obtained in China. Although this money cannot be used in China, if you really need it, you can use it in friendship stores and the like. However, there is no Friendship Store in the county town, or even in Ngee Ann City, so you have to go to the province.

Earn 800 a month, buy things for free, and have all kinds of supplies that are in short supply in the country. Gao Ru even has proof of identity there. All this is amazing to the Gao Ru family.

Three months ago, even if Gao Ru had written letters to her family, she did not say that she worked in an industrial area, only that she worked in an urban area. The university she studied in before told her to drop out, but she graduated successfully. Three months later, Gao Ru went back and said she wanted to give her job to her younger brother. It was then that her family learned for the first time that Gao Ru was working in Ngee Ann City Industrial Zone and was working as a college student. Yes, when I gave the job to my younger brother, he was already a reserve cadre and became a regular employee.

It was shocking enough at the time, and I don’t know how to describe it now. Gao Ru would go to Xiangjiang after celebrating the Lantern Festival in her hometown. It was difficult to come back and she couldn’t even make a phone call. But she will still come back once or twice a year, so this year when she is celebrating the New Year at home, she is really like a young lady. She is not asked to do any housework, but is allowed to have a good rest at home.

Before going to Xiangjiang, Gao Ru asked her family to make a list. She could not come back easily, and it would waste a lot of time going back and forth. But you can find someone to transport things back. With her current salary, she can buy whatever her family wants.

Therefore, Gao Ru went to Xiangjiang after the Chinese New Year with a long list. But they are some daily necessities, which cost only two to three hundred yuan. For people in China, it is difficult to save two to three hundred yuan a year, but for Gao Ru, it is nothing.